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Praise for America Pacifica

“A dark, gripping, and wildly creative debut with a futuristic end-of-days setting.” — BookPage

“Anna North’s fluid prose moves this story along with considerable force and velocity. The language in America Pacifica seeps into you, word by word, drop by drop, until you are saturated in the details of this vivid and frightening world.” —Charles Yu, author of the National Book Award–winning Interior Chinatown

“Anna North has crafted a dangerous, wise, and deeply affecting vision of the future that is also a dark mirror held to our present. At once thrilling and heartbreaking, America Pacifica suggests how we shape ourselves by shaping the world.” —Jedediah Berry, author of The Naming Song

“Richly imagined . . . North, a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, is a stylish writer and a good storyteller who keeps the pages turning . . . An entertaining, stylishly written doomsday novel.” — Kirkus Reviews

“A dark, page-turning debut . . . North cleverly combines elements from other popular modern stories—a brave young heroine on an against-all-the-odds quest on a strange island with shocking secrets . . . The story—and the wealth of detail in a vividly imagined world—is memorable.” — Publishers Weekly

“A thrilling and often very gripping read, expanding beyond its basic quest narrative to comment on society and the politics of control . . . North weaves in black humor, frank sex scenes, and bittersweet memories . . . An enjoyable and intriguing read.” — Time Out London

“A richly rendered post-apocalyptic novel set on a Pacific island . . . In her debut novel, Anna North shows us a disturbing vision of the future that is disturbingly similar to our present.” — The Daily Beast

“One of North’s greatest skills is her ability to tell a story within a story. From the first chapter—where Sophie’s girlfriend Allison is telling a traumatic story about her childhood at a bar that Sophie hears and adapts into a film—readers encounter a multi-faceted work . . . North’s novel is an intricate, abstract portrait of an artist as a young woman.” — New York Daily News